by popular demand

A friend of mine was like WHY DONT YOU POST. I COME HERE EVERYDAY AND ITS EMPTY.

So by popular demand, yours truly is back. I'm in Karachi right now. Its freaking hot. The food is amazing; im taking kind of a break until Ali gets here. Then we can go sailing together! yay!

anyways we will soon start working on the site again. Fix some bugs. Make some improvements you all have suggested - hopefully in a couple of months, the site will look better, will not have bugs, and will do nicer things. BUT all said, rite now is take it easy time.

Join us. We are the Penguin. Resistance is futile. [courtesy: thefacebook team] 

Eureka!!!

I have an idea!!!!!
In other news, Prosper lost his cell phone on some beach - Boston again tomorrow - and back home, i.e. Karachi for me on Monday.

San Francisco

Hola from CA. Ali and Prosper have collapsed from utter exhaustion next to me. I'm sitting checking email here like a dork. None of us got any sleep last night (the freaking plane was at 6am)

The hotel we're in, called the York Hotel has a room called the Plush. Aparently its really famous for speakeasy in the 1920s and the filming of Vertigo or some thing. Some actors are getting dressed in the room next door. Seems to be for a shoot or performance. These folks call this plush thingy the most famous night club of Sanfran. Guess what i'll be doing tonite - Oceanography. I'm about to collapse too.

We're driving upto Palo Alto in the valley in a bit. We saw Mike in the morning. Mike: iVentster hearts you!

Holyoke = bad luck

For personal reasons that I might disclose at a later date, and for the numerous times when we've tried to hit up parties at Holyoke (and everytime the site has managed to go down and ensured that we stay stuck in Jesup) - Holyoke has always equated to BAD BAD luck for us. But todays misfortune tops it all...

He was coming from Boston and we were driving from Williamstown. So we decided to meet half way at Holyoke. So there we were driving the sun was out, it was nice and warm and all was well. Until the oil pipe in Prospers car decided to explode. The car started knocking like it was gonna explode. All the oil went splashing out and the engine seized. The engine started fumming smoke all over and wouldnt shut down even though the ignition was off. After 10 minutes of resting, the engine shut down and stopped giving off smoke. There goes the 92 Honda (iVentster) Accord.

Getting back to campus was another story, but thanks to Nate, we're back here in one peice.

Holyoke = BAD BAD BAD (even though its an awesome all girls school)

b/c I don't have anyone else to talk to, and I can't possibly be hitting it up with this site

I didn't go to my econometrics class for 6 weeks. Like hell, this class is full of equations and other modelling stuff, and I'm no math wiz. 8 hours of cramming-on-banana before the midterm, and I pulled a B- yesterday :) this entrepreneurship stuff actually makes you better and more adept at schoolwork. You figure out what the prof wants, and more importantly what requires the least amount of effort lol. This site is my first luv, sorry prof :) I was the only guy without a powerpoint for the history presentations. I was also the only one with an A+ :p

and about the site
By popular demand, we'll be bringing your pictures to the front page. As we're very interested and involved in how users respond to the site, talk back if you have strong opinions.

In other changes we're planning to the current site, we're looking into refining our collaborative calendaring system - you'll be able to take RSS feeds, sync with Outlook, iCal and other calendaring applications, and play around with more event-related multimedia. This takes a bit of work however, and we'll prolly not get around to it before the summer.

lets meet up

While we're in Sanfransico, Pavo Alto and around - if you wanna meet up we're totally up for it. Its going to be Tue/Wed next week. Call me 413 884 5774 and we can fix up a time and place.

san fran

someone just offered to pay for our tickets to fly out west! how sweet is that? i love this stuff we do.

got something wack?

Summer's almost here. In between kicking Prosper's a$$ on Halo and Half Life Counter-Strike, we'll be playing with the site a bit, improving features, opening up at more colleges, and so on. If you've got something cool and interesting and wack, and you think it will rock with iVentster, contact us. We're open to anything if you can take us out on Counter-Strike :p

Schools out

For those who want to use this site over the summer, it will be up and running. But for most people, the return will be back next semester. We promise a bang - bigger, better and a more powerful brand of iVentster, come September.
Thanks for sticking with us so far; the best is yet to come!

pool party at UH

Boston: best day we've had in a while

I sleep at 4 am and at 6 am my cell phone rings. Time to get ready and hit Boston. Prosper is driving while Ali and I catch up on sleep. It starts raining - we know this is gonna be good. Usually when it rains on such important days, awesome things happen to us.

We meet our first potential investor (cant give names right now). Really awesome guy. Hes founded several companies and he grills us with questions (i take flack for being the freshmen PR guy). During the meeting i come to admire his instinct. There is certainly a difference between succesful and failed entreprenuers and I believe it has a lot to do with instinct. In the middle of the meeting, his 8 year old son comes in and hes like son tell me some thing. If you had a dollar would you give it to these people? And im sitting there, going oh no, 2 pakistanis and one black guy. But the kid is like sure why not. The guy turns around and smiles at us. In principle hes interested. (this has to be one of the coolest stories ever).

We headed over to this diner and they were selling sandwitches for 10 bucks. Next stop Mc Donalds were we got burgers for $1. Finally for the first time, we used company money to feed ourselves. Felt good using the company credit card.

Our second meeting was even better. The gentleman offered to write us a cheque right there and then. Hes founded a lot of succesful companies and once again, i realized how good his instinct was. There is definately a trend here amongst these succesful people.

Anyways we're headed to NYC tomorrow for more meetings. Then Mark's place on Tues. In actually enjoying this fund raising.

the shuffle giveaway has closed for this week, and we have a clear winner :) We'll be announcing stuff as soon as we get up in the afternoon tomorrow. Was a long, long night.